Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they’re sponsored by a local Rotary club. This makes them true “partners in service” and key members of the family of Rotary.

As one of Rotary’s most significant and fastest-growing service programs, with more than 7,000 clubs in about 163 countries and geographical areas, Rotaract has become a worldwide phenomenon.

How does it work?

All Rotaract efforts begin at the local, grassroots level, with members addressing their communities’ physical and social needs while promoting international understanding and peace through a framework of friendship and service.

What are some other opportunities available to Rotaractors?

Rotaractors may also:

• Assist in organizing Interact clubs or mentor Interactors
• Participate in Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
• Become Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholars or Group Study Exchange team members
• Seek membership in their local Rotary club

NEW Bank account of the club:

BANK: EUROBANK EFG – YAMBOL (ЮРОБАНК И ЕФ ДЖИ-ЯМБОЛ)
ADDRESS: EUROBANK EFG – YAMBOL (ЮРОБАНК И ЕФ ДЖИ-ЯМБОЛ)
SWIFT: BPBIBGSF
IBAN: BG31 BPBI 7934 1035 0002 02
HOLDER’S NAME: Албена Боянова Петкова (Albena Boyanova Petkova)

Old Bank account of the club (not valid due to transfer of duties to Ms. Albena Petkova):

BANK: DSK Bank
ADDRESS: Sofia 1000, 6, Batenberg Str.
SWIFT: STSABGSF
IBAN: BG86 STSA 9300 0017 9667 25
HOLDER’S NAME: Димитър Димитров Мандраджиев (Dimiter Dimitrov Mandradjiev)

Old Bank account of the club (not valid now due to inability of the Treasurer to operate at this moment)

IBAN: BG62STSA93000016740883
HOLDER: Anna Asenova Pashanska (Анна Асенова Пашанска)

About ROTARY

Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 166 countries.

Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community’s business and professional men and women. The world’s Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today’s most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary’s centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program will have contributed US$500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes world understanding through international humanitarian service programs and educational and cultural exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and others who share its vision of a better world. Since 1947, the Foundation has awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.

Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
2. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

The Four-Way Test

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world’s most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.

This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:

“Of the things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”

Why Join Your Local Rotary Club?

Professional Networking

A founding principle of Rotary was to meet periodically to enjoy camaraderie and

enlarge one’s circle of business and professional acquaintances. As the oldest

service club in the world, Rotary club members represent a cross-section of the

community’s owners, executives, managers, political leaders, and professionals

– people who make decisions and influence policy.

Service Opportunities

Club members have many opportunities for humanitarian service, both locally

and internationally. Service programs address such concerns as health care,

hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and the environment. Rotarians experience the

fulfillment that comes from giving back to the community.

International Awareness

With more than 32,000 clubs in over 200 countries & geographical areas,

Rotarians gain an understanding of humanitarian issues through international

service projects and exchange programs. One of Rotary’s highest objectives is to

build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

Friendship

Rotary was founded on fellowship, an ideal that remains a major attraction of

membership today. Club members enjoy the camaraderie with like-minded

professionals, and club projects offer additional opportunities to develop enduring

friendships. Rotary club members who travel have friendly contacts in almost

every city in the world.

Good Citizenship

Weekly Rotary club programs keep members informed about what is taking place

in the community, nation, and world and motivated to make a difference.

Family Foundations

Rotary sponsors some of the world’s largest youth exchange, educational

exchange, and scholarship programs. Rotary clubs provide innovative training

opportunities and mentoring for young leaders and involve family members in a

wide range of social and service activities.

Entertainment

Social activities give Rotarians a chance to let loose and have fun. Every Rotary

club and district hosts parties and activities that offer diversions from today’s

demanding professional and personal schedules. Conferences, conventions,

assemblies, and social events provide entertainment as well as Rotary

information, education, and service.

Ethical Environment

Encouraging high ethical standards in one’s profession and respect for all worthy

vocations has been a hallmark of Rotary from its earliest days. In their business

and professional lives, Rotarians abide by The Four-Way Test:

Of the things we think, say or do:

1) Is it the TRUTH?

2) Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3) Will it BUILD GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Leadership Development

Rotary is an organization of successful professionals. Team building, fundraising,

public speaking, planning, organization, and communication are just a sampling

of the leadership skills that club members can exercise and enhance. Being a

Rotary leader provides further experience in learning how to motivate, inspire,

and guide others.

Diversity in Membership

Rotary’s classification system ensures that a club’s membership represents a

variety of the community’s professional men and women, including leaders in

business, industry, the arts, government, sports, the military, and religion. Rotary

clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.